First post...
Looking to buy a NC30, it has a West paint scheme, I guess from the Honda Pons racing sponsorship back in the day. How does this affect the price and desirability of the bike? Does it make any difference to the values?
Looking to spend around 1,500 to 1,600 pounds. Bike is in average to good condition. Fair price?
I already own a mint Firestorm and aim to keep it...just fancy one of the VFR's for a while...
Cheers for any feedback.

Oem paint schemes will always attract a premium over race inspired paint jobs and will be easier to sell on in the future.

Last year I bought a Colin Edward Movistar replica painted VFR NC30. I really like it well I did before I had to try match the paint after an accident.

Price wise though I bought it from ebay with tax and test for about half the price of what it would have been if it was OE painted. I've now been put in the difficult position with mine if to go back to OE or paint it how I want.

Pembroke wrote:First post...
Looking to buy a NC30, it has a West paint scheme, I guess from the Honda Pons racing sponsorship back in the day. How does this affect the price and desirability of the bike? Does it make any difference to the values?
Looking to spend around 1,500 to 1,600 pounds. Bike is in average to good condition. Fair price?
I already own a mint Firestorm and aim to keep it...just fancy one of the VFR's for a while...
Cheers for any feedback.

Probably worth less than a factory original scheme, from a collectors / investors / original enthusiast unless you find a buyer that really wants an aftermarket respray job.

But lets face it, 99% of the factory bikes that were re-sprayed were done due to the bike being binned somewhere.

Price sounds ok

Thing is they are all nearly knocking on for 25 years old now, some even 26 now... plus with them being super popular as a learners / beginners bike most of them are like buying a 25 year old learner drivers car.

Except instead of the driving school maintaining it many have been kept by somebody fresh out of school with no money and know knowldge of mechanics.

The build quality is great and the engines super strong so many still about but restoring even a good looking one to its former glory can cost as much if not more than the price of the bike.

Especially if you want to do it properly with bushes, bearings and seals.

I've ridden a fully restored nc30 and apart from the old fashioned looks and carbs it rode and went as well as any modern bike ive ridden, bit lumpier on the fuelling compared to a well set-up injection system but ive also ridden some nc30s that didnt even feel safe to be on the road.

Back in the day they were a cracking bike and everything in good nick will still be a fun ride today, but beware of the many that are suffering ptsd at the hands of years of abuse.

+1 for the tobacco-ad livery (I'm a troublemaker, yes)...I've always hankered after a Rothmans MC28, myself.

Just in case you're thinking the West scheme was OEM, it wasn't. There was a genuine Rothmans NC24, and a few different official NSR250 replicas, but no NC30 or NC35 ever came from the factory with a "replica" paint job per se. The last version of the NC30 is sometimes referred to as "OKI", but there were never any OKI stickers on it, for example. A complete list of the eight NC30 factory paint schemes can be found on my NC30 Model Info page: http://www.vsource.org/VFR-RVF_files/Bvfr400r-mi.htm.

Ciao,

Where is the bike Pembroke?
If your in west Wales let me know I would be quite happy to swing by for a look while im out and about on my NC30
Be good to increase NC30 numbers in the wild west!!!!!